WILL-AM Media Matters Website is Down; Calls Unanswered

After making numerous calls, I got through to the station and was told that the program today was a recording. I informed the station that the website was down, and asked who was the guest on the recorded program.

After several minutes, I was told that the school was on Spring Break, that the studio was quiet, and that a pre-recorded program was being aired: an interview with Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, director of Afro-American studies at the UI and professor of history.

I was told that the station was able to view the website locally; but it still remains inaccessible here in San Francisco.

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Information from Media Matters:

This week's guest is Sundiata Cha-Jua, Professor of African-American history, and director of the African American Studies and Research Program (AASRP), at the University of Illinois [http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/cha-jua/cha-jua.htm].

In this program, he talks about the history of the Black Power movement, and contemporary developments in political action around race issues in the United States, in advance of a major conference at the University of Illinois.

This is a pre-recorded program.

http://www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/conference/index.html

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